A Walk to Remember

A Walk to Remember by: Kara Marchant. About a girl named Jamie who has leukemia and falls in love with the most unexpected guy, Landon. She goes through a lot, trying to fight leukemia and her feelings for a "bad boy" all at once.

The character Landon in the book is portrayed average with a little edge to him; where as in the movie he is more popular than he is average and he has the whole "bad boy" thing going for him. In the book he is trying to become more involved in school for the sole purpose of going to college. In the movie he does extra curricular activities only because he is made to by the principle as an act of punishment.

Jamie is almost the same in the movie as she is in the book. In the book she is almost normal to people. She is simply living her life according to God the best she can. In the movie, she really does seem like a geek. She seems to take her love for God to a total extreme, a different level. In the book and movie she seems very modest, sweet, and innocent. The only thing that really stood out was how native she seemed in the movie; there wasn't much of that in the book.

In the book it seems to explain Landon and his father's relationship very vividly. In the book you can see there is some anger and hurt there, but you don't really know why because they're so vague about it. All you seem to piece together is that somewhere along the line Landon's father abandoned him and his mom.

Landon is elected class president and asks Jamie to the school dance in the book. In the movie this detail is left out. Also the in both the book and movie there is a play which Jamie and Landon are both in, in the book the play is made out to be this huge deal because Jamie is in it. In the movie all you can tell is that he fell for her, and that is where you start to see his love for her grow.

Throughout the whole movie Jamie has a "to-do list" of all the things she wants to do before she dies. It is a very big part of the movie, because you so frequently see it incorporated into their relationship. The book says absolutely nothing about a "to-do list".

There seems to be tension between Jamie's father and Landon in the movie. He is not aloud to really be alone with her in the movie, when you do see them alone together its sneaky. In the book there seems to be a greater amount of tension between Landon and Jamie's